Spend my $600 Tonight !!!!!

[Lunitixx]

I have to build a computer for $600. I already have a harddrive and a monitor but I need everything else.

No cd burners, just plain cd-rom is all I need. I also don't need a modem. It will be for gaming and work and internet.It will also be used several hours a day. I just don't know id a duron will be enough or do I have to get the athalon. I'll start the list and with what I have and then maybe you could drop a few ideas after that.

$600 Limit
Hard Drive: WD gig 7200 rpm (Already Purchased)
Monitor: Samsung 955 19" flat screen (Already Purchased)


CPU:
MOBO:
Memory: (amount of ram also please)
CD ROM:
Floppy:
Case:
Video Card:
Sound Card:
NIC: If none on MOBO

 

[Ionizer86]

Get the Enlight 7230: $50 case with 300 watt PSU.
Get 256mb ram, unless DDR. SDram is still cheap.
Get a Geforce 2 GTS-V video card: $62 and almost twice as good as an MX card.

 

[TallBill]

You can get a
ecs k7s5a + athlonxp 1600 from mwave.com for 198 + shipping (probably 20)

for ram, get either 256 megs or 512 megs of ram from crucial.com.. depending on how much money u got left

 

[TallBill]

btw.. aint ya gonna need speakers too?

 

[Lunitixx]

Is that Sdram or DDR? That MOBO supports both(not at smae time)

I was going to use my Sennheiser headphones untill I pick some speakers. Do you think my money is better spent on an XP processor instead of an older T-bird? There is quite the price jump when I go to an XP. Is a 250 watt power supply going to be enough?


Thanks a lot for the responses!